[Corpora-List] Call For Participation : XML Document Mining Challenge 2006

[Ludovic DENOYER]

Call For Participation

XML-MINING CHALLENGE 2006 

Classification - Clustering - Structure Mapping - for XML documents
 

Co-organized by the EU Pascal <http://www.pascal-network.org/>* Network 
of Excellence and the INEX 
<http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2005/>** initiative 
(Initiative for the Evaluation of XML retrieval) from the Delos 
<http://www.delos.info/>*** Network of Excellence

The general objective of the challenge is to develop machine learning 
methods for structured data mining and to evaluate these methods for XML 
document mining tasks. The challenge features three tasks: 
classification, clustering and Structure Mapping for XML documents.

Participation is open to all.

XML document collections have been gathered for the challenge and will 
be provided to the participants.

Results will be presented at the challenge workshop to be held in July 
or September 2006 (to be fixed).

The Timeline is the following:

2006 March 15 : Training data available

2006 May 15 : Test data available

2006 June 1st : Deadline for submitting test results

2006 July / September :  Challenge workshop - to be announced


More information is available at the challenge web site: 
http://xmlmining.lip6.fr


Contact: xmlmining at lip6.fr , ludovic.denoyer at lip6.fr 
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*   http://www.pascal-network.org/

** http://inex.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de/2005/

*** http://www.delos.info/

This is the second round of the XML-Mining Challenge. The first one was 
run in 2005 with a presentation of the results at the INEX workshop in 
November 2005.

-- 
Ludovic DENOYER
Assistant Professor
UPMC - LIP6 - France
http://www-connex.lip6.fr/~denoyer


Patrick Gallinari
Professor
UPMC, LIP6
8 rue du Capitaine Scott, F75015 Paris
Tel: 33144277370, fax: 33144277000
http://www-connex.lip6.fr/